Word: gusto
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...They killed those penalties well," saidMinnesota Coach Doug Woog, who admitted that hissquad was a little bit tired after its win Fridaynight against Maine in the semifinals. "But Ithink if you're a little bit more fresh, you comeout on the ice with more gusto...
...politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict, nursing a comic obsession with getting the kids to sing the school song with gusto...
GERSHWIN: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, RHAPSODY IN BLUE, CONCERTO IN F (Arabesque). A player in Gershwin's 1934 band, Mitch Miller conducts with love and gusto...
...statement of principle," says Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg. "When he gets done speaking, voters have to think, 'That's what this election is all about.' Time is very short, but there is some time." Last week, juiced up by his favorable debate reviews, Dukakis waged class warfare with more gusto than he usually displays. He belabored Bush repeatedly for ignoring the concerns of ordinary families as they try to educate their young, care for their sick and provide for their own retirement. Dukakis depicted his opponent as a "Santa Claus to the rich and Ebenezer Scrooge to the rest...
Democratic conventions have never been for the fainthearted. Whatever Democrats believe, they tend to believe it with the brawling gusto of a radio talk-show host. Whether it was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley snarling read-my- lips obscenities in 1968 or Senator Edward Kennedy battling a sitting President to the last bitter moment in 1980, Democrats have settled their differences with the civility of the Hatfields and the McCoys. Even the 1932 convention that first nominated Party Icon Franklin Roosevelt was raucous and bitter. As H.L. Mencken wrote at the time, "The great combat is ending this afternoon in classical...